The details of this chart are less important than the process of creating it. After trying Interactive Whiteboards in the classroom and reading/watching how others use them in the classroom, get together with a few other educators and fill out your own chart. Here's a blank chart we give out as a part of a Think-Pair-Share.
Affordances
Constraints
Video, images and audio (multimodal) can really engage students (what you then do with the engaged students has more to do with other pedagogies than the IWB)
Can annotate and save information (can be done without IWB too) as images or video - This can be great for review or for absent students - Possibly even to "flip" the classroom
By using clickers, informal formative assessment is possible (this could also be done through laptops, iPads, or smartphones)
Interface well with document cameras (though lcd projectors can too) and are nicer than overhead projectors
Software offers manipulable objects, especially for math
Allows the opportunity for teachers to invest in the technology to find unique and innovative ways of implementation
More expensive than a standard lcd projector and screen
"Interactive" elements often ignored and used as if they were only projectors
Prone to perpetuating direct instruction as the primary pedagogy (fits with many educators existing view of teaching as imparting information)
Need clickers and tablets (more money) to make them more "interactive"
Requires a fair amount of professional development if they are to be used for more than a standard LCD projector and screen - Which means that time/money is not available for other professional development that might more significantly affect pedagogy
Creating your own lessons with the software is time consuming (as is most curriculum development)
Typically connected to the "teacher" computer; i.e. teacher based tool
Teachers must willing choose to invest into learning ways to implement into curriculum
Affordances & Constraints - Interactive Whiteboards
The details of this chart are less important than the process of creating it. After trying Interactive Whiteboards in the classroom and reading/watching how others use them in the classroom, get together with a few other educators and fill out your own chart. Here's a blank chart we give out as a part of a Think-Pair-Share.
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